Beijing Olympic Games

Aren't you sick of those repeated criticisms of the Chinese government on issues such as freedom of speech, Tibet, free press and internet censorship? I mean, what were those, who gave the olympics to China, thinking? That in few years China will become a Western democracy? After China's troublesome history they didn't know that? You just can't make the largest culture on earth follow your way of thinking in few years. China's been known for changing slowly, what happened in recent 25 years is already 100 times faster than the years before 1980. Yea, I condemn surpression of their own people and minorities. It's far from a perfect country. This year is really the year of China, but until now, more in a negative sense. Many bad things happened while China was in the spotlight of the world this year. 8 is the Chinese lucky number and I read, that many Chinese people wonder if that's still the case. Recently I'm thinking: Get over with these games already! I was never a big fan of olympics, I prefer the football Eurocup or Worldcup instead, but anyway, because of so much commotion before the games, I think I won't be able to escape them. I haven't watched the games 4 yars ago. But now there's nothing more anticipated than these games. It's only 3 weeks, and then? What will China do? Nothing probably. They will continue the same politics with fast money and slow political changes. They will face big problems and they will have to deal with them. We can condemn them or not, we can't change China and its course. We can only observe how it progresses. We have to accept that not all cultures will develop freedoms like us. I guess the people of China have accepted the way it is, if they don't like it, I think only they can change it. Whatever we in the West will say, the Chinese media won't talk about it, the Chinese people won't know.
So why bother? Why try? We will only make things worse... Let's not politicize the games. It's about athletes competing, it's about them, their carreers, not about which political ideology is right or wrong.
I congratulate to all the excited Chinese people who are proud to host the olympic games at home. I'm happy for them and I'm sure they will be great friendly hosts. They are the ones who will bring changes to China in future, let's not behave like some almighty teachers who wanna lecture them what's right and what's wrong. Let them have their games. It's too late to bother now. Few months later everybody will focus on the new President of the United states of America! And China will be far far away.